Dear loving people,
My lovely grandmother told me
during my childhood that the patient dog eats the fattest bone in
life and so I grew up with the understanding that one will get nowhere
without patience. I realized with time that this statement fits in perfectly
with the notion of God’s appointed time so talked of within Christian circles. We read in 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slow in keeping
his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not
wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
Later on in life, I came to
meet a people especially young people who believed that the patient dog eats no bone at all. They argue that if at all the
patient dog gets to eat the fattest bone, it is because the fastest dog eat all the meat leaving
just the bones, so everyone of them had to get on the fast lane in life and
that is how they miss out of opportunities, and experiences they expected to
see at the end of the tunnel because it was waiting for them along the way but
they were too fast, so they could not recognize them even when they saw it. A
lot of people are stranded in life, some are suffering, others are managing
when they should be enjoying in life, because what they wanted they don’t have
and what they needed they don’t have, so they are now in a situation they
should not have been if they were a little more patient with things. Stories abound
about people who have gotten themselves into all sorts of irreparable damages
just because they wanted at all cost to take a second step before the first. For
example there at recurring accounts of young girls who for want of ‘quick’
money, get swallowed up whole by shape-shifting men in hotels.
Patience will remain one of the
greatest virtues in life, because it will take patience plus any other virtue
to get what you want in life. In order words the ability to wait is the price
you must pay to get anything you want from life. However, waiting is one big
problem in life, people either don’t want to wait or they end up waiting for too long. But
the truth remains, waiting is part of living that has come to stay because
everything in life takes time. So you have to wait for your time and still wait
for your turn. Farmers exemplify this best, they have no choice but to wait for
the right time for their crops to mature. There is time for everything, but
when you refuse to wait for it and move when you should have waited you may
still get a consolation prize you don’t need or when you wait when you should
have moved, you may have to wait for another chance. So if you cannot wait for
something, you are only rushing for problems or wait too long you will be
waiting for problems. But, the question is how long do we need to wait?
In the game of life and
especially for those who dream of opening wide the gates leading to the upper
circles of financial independence, you have to learn to balance up waiting and moving
on the fast lane. You have to take informed action when it’s time to do so and
be patient enough to wait for the results of the actions you have meticulously
taken to come to fruition.
If it takes patience to get what you want from life, so you will have to wait for as long as it will take you to get what you want and as long as you need to get where you want to. However, it is what you do while you are waiting that determines what you will get at the end of the day – informed action. To some people it is time to sleep, others just remained idle and few other are just busy doing nothing, all of them without any anticipation of what they want because it is at the point of anticipation that you determine your next move because there is no point waiting or rushing for something you can’t have, that is not coming and that is not real.
Therefore, if you must move – in order to eat all the meat, it should be when it is time and not in a hurry. And if you must wait – in order to have the fattest bone, it should be for your time and your turn but it should not be for too long yet as long as it will take because true success and greatness are between the fattest bone and the all the meat in life and it takes a great deal of balance between patience and informed action to attain them. So life will not give it to the fastest, the most beautiful, the strongest, the smartest or the most patient but to them that can commensurately balance patience and informed action.
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